Ghassan Safar

Ghassan Safar (12 October 1943-11 May 1979) was an Iraqi intelligence agent.

Biography
Ghassan Safar was born on 12 October 1943 in Baghdad, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. Safar joined the intelligence services of Ba'athist Iraq after serving with the Iraqi Air Force, and Safar was sent to Syria to help Syrian dissidents in spying on the Syrian Arab Republic's leadership. Safar was also deployed to clamp down on anti-Ba'ath Party activists within Iraq itself. In 1979, Safar traveled to Cyprus in order to focus on tracking down an Israeli spy ring there. However, on 11 May 1979 he was gunned down as he left a restaurant in Nicosia, with Mossad being behind his death.